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Write My Code For Me _My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a...
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_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
The Works in...
Anemia and Malaria In malaria endemic regions, being anemic could be keeping children safe
2 months ago
Old Vintage...
When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare (featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk) This entry and the software we'll demonstrate is in large part thanks to an anonymous Apple...
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This entry and the software we'll demonstrate is in large part thanks to an anonymous Apple developer who was part of the NetWare team. Thank you! the network operating system of the 1990s. Nothing was quite like it. Until Windows NT muscled in on its action near the end of the...
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have? undefined
10 months ago
Louwrentius
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
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Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Madeira, Portugal Is the Ideal Stopover Destination
a month ago
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app More than 40,000 Kenyans have downloaded Zello since protests began against the government’s plan to...
5 months ago
diamond geezer
The Putney Sculpture Trail A Nice Walk: Putney Sculpture Trail (1½ miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
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A Nice Walk: Putney Sculpture Trail (1½ miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, pretty views, tidal waterside, pockets of history, nine bronzes, multiple refreshment opportunities, entirely step-free, won't take...
DYNOMIGHT
Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”....
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There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was: Buy audiobooks to read much more books, listen at 1.5-2x speed This led to the following thread (later removed): Aaa: A midwit in making Bbb: Audio...
Rest of World -...
A little-understood role in a global VC could also be one of the most influential Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and...
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Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and strategic vision with her organization’s leader.
The Modern House
How designer Alison Lloyd’s Hackney home and garden caters to her collecting
a year ago
Res Obscura
Why drug history? Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
11 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Odyssey Homer's epic poem tells the story of how Odysseus struggled to return home after the Trojan War. It...
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Homer's epic poem tells the story of how Odysseus struggled to return home after the Trojan War. It is one of the greatest stories in history.
AVC
What Does “Native” Mean When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology....
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When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile...
Londonist
29 Things To Do In London On 29 February Use your extra day of 2024 wisely.
11 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning,... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Business idea: Reference checks as a service. Do...
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
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The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
Seth's Blog
Two ways to defend the status quo Neither is true, helpful or generous. Both happen all the time. Call it out when you see it.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
What to do with firm footing If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with...
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If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And...
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Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And while the vistas were gorgeous, I was waving my arms about and describing the future of virtual reality. Having worked as a game developer in the VR space for several years (back...
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk undefined
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Five years of new stations Today it's five years since the day Crossrail was supposed to open but didn't. three and a half...
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Today it's five years since the day Crossrail was supposed to open but didn't. three and a half years to run the first train. People in high places must have been lying their socks off. • Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and the Northern line extension Brent Cross...
Louwrentius
Mounting a file system or partition from a disk image You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know...
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You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know where the partition starts on the disk. So first, you need to get the partition table with sfdisk: sfdisk -l -uS image_file.dd The output is something like: Disk...
Steve Klabnik
"C is not how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code
over a year ago
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation? undefined
9 months ago
Ben Borgers
How ChatGPT spoiled my semester
2 months ago
Christopher Butler
Personal Machines and Portable Worlds A personal machine balances access to another world with the kinds of limits and boundaries that...
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A personal machine balances access to another world with the kinds of limits and boundaries that make a thing private. A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object. Think back to when you were a child, to when you first encountered something you could...
diamond geezer
Hinchley Wood One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford...
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One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford line. unsung fields to the east of Esher, officially in the parish of Thames Ditton, sliced through by a non-stopping railway. What changed things was the arrival of the Kingston Bypass...
Passing Time
Alpine Starts II Or: Thanksgiving in the Mountains
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
View From My Office Window I never cease to be awed by the beauty and diversity of God's creation.  Over the years, I've...
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I never cease to be awed by the beauty and diversity of God's creation.  Over the years, I've flown/worked in quite a number of regions/countries, and had the unique privilege of enjoying many awesome landscapes in some of the most remote and isolated parts of the world... and...
Irrational...
Leadership requires taking some risk. At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles...
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At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles sometimes mean that making progress on a professional initiative requires taking some personal risk. This lesson was hammered into me a decade ago during my time at Uber, where I...
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
10 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History? undefined
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bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Seth's Blog
The perils of doing it live [Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days...
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[Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days caused by my provider. If you ever see a broken link or something that doesn’t render, you can visit the blog. It always has the latest version, typos fixed. It’s much easier to fix...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: All the single people And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
2 weeks ago
Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
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I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
Seth's Blog
The defensive arrogance of TL;DR Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The...
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Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The internet took this idea, added a gratuitous semicolon and perfected Too Long; Didn’t Read. This is the mistakenly proud assertion that we are far too busy and too important to read...
Confessions of a...
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
2 months ago
Good Enough
TIL: Managing Raspberry Pi software with a bit less pain For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but...
a year ago
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For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but there's some software that needs to run beside each printer, to check for new things to print and manage the process of downloading and sending those things to the printer component...
Anecdotal Evidence
'These Pieces of Moral Prose' “Where did you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”  Creating anything...
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“Where did you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”  Creating anything worthwhile, whether joke, villanelle or pot of lentil soup, calls for pride and humility. Pride because one presumes to add to the world’s bounty and impose it on others; humility because...
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome? undefined
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in Science How much does the public trust in science and scientists? Well, there’s some good news and some bad...
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How much does the public trust in science and scientists? Well, there’s some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news – a recent Pew survey finds that trust in scientist has been in decline for the last few years. From its recent peak in 2019, those who answered...
abdz.do - Have you...
Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces abduzeedo0209—23 RM Mono...
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Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces abduzeedo0209—23 RM Mono is the monospaced version of RM Neue. Each character in RM Mono fits in a box of the same width (600 units). While developing RM Mono, we also took the time to update RM Neue with a...
Jonas Hietala
Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
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Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany undefined
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera? undefined
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A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
a year ago
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays undefined
10 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Reading in 2022 Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it...
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Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension. – Mortimer J Adler, How to Read a Book My trusty, hated Kindle Reading only “1000 books before you die” used to strike me as unambitious. Then...
Sam Altman
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
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The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
Matt Mazur
Is the ChatGPT API Refusing to Summarize Academic Papers? Not so fast. Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API...
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Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API indicating that it was refusing to summarize arXiv papers: There has been a lot of discussion recently about the perceived decrease in the quality of ChatGPT’s responses and seeing...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess Babylon’s Mystery Goddess JamesHoare Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Maps Mania
NIMBY Mapping
a year ago
Louwrentius
Script that shows relevant disk information I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any...
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I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any physical storage devices supported by hdparm. Information such as model and capacity are shown, but also controller and device path. This script only requires python and hdparm. I hope...
Londonist
Regent's Park Is Getting A New Garden Dedicated To The Late Queen Two-acre space will open in 2026.
12 months ago
Ben Borgers
Twitter Not Found
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Converting heritage buildings into shops ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in...
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ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in Fujian, China, with their latest project...
Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
a year ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West How Iran Won the West JamesHoare Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
a month ago
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud? undefined
8 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️ .title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver The laptop industry is a tragedy. Meanwhile, Framework built something different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect users. Framework is a rare company worth...
mtlynch.io
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Before reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I thought of it as the canonical cliché...
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Before reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I thought of it as the canonical cliché self-help book. But as the saying goes, clichés become clichés because they’re true. The book’s insightfulness surprised me, and I found many of its ideas useful in my everyday...
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
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Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through a US lens It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press...
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It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press seems to deeply misunderstand what's going on. It seems the US reporters can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Diaries of Note
A duty, not a pleasure John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after...
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John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after spending two years in the military, he was now navigating his final year at Oxford, and as the festive season descended he found himself back at home, enveloped in the annual Christmas...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
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Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
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I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
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I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Essays - Benedict...
Antitrust posturing US politicians proposed five tech antitrust bills in June. They’re aggressive and ambitious, and...
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US politicians proposed five tech antitrust bills in June. They’re aggressive and ambitious, and contain some important concerns and ideas. Unfortunately, some of them are also pretty naive - case studies in not doing the work.
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender? undefined
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
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It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
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When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Calculated Risk
Ten Economic Questions for 2025 Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each...
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Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each of these questions. We can assume the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will be extended.  That larger tariffs will be imposed on some imports, and there will be some...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The decline of the mobile web People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not...
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People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for…
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The paradox of brittle Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the...
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Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the short-run, optimization works as long as the world stays the same. We can optimize a device to work at capacity. However, something working at capacity blows up if you step on the gas when...
Diaries of Note
No sooner am I happy, than he crushes me It was on the eve of their wedding in September of 1862 that Russian writer Leo Tolstoy showed his...
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It was on the eve of their wedding in September of 1862 that Russian writer Leo Tolstoy showed his diaries to 18-year-old Sofia Behrs, the young woman with whom he was to spend his life. Filled with lurid confessions and tales of past affairs, these notebooks made an instant,...
Civic Hax
A tale about requesting Chicago’s Mayor’s Office’s phone records. Intro Back in 2014, I had the naive goal of finding evidence of collusion between mayoral...
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Intro Back in 2014, I had the naive goal of finding evidence of collusion between mayoral candidates. The reasoning is longwinded and boring, so I won't go into it. My plan was to find some sort of evidence through a FOIA request or two for the mayor's phone records, find zero...
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians undefined
6 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
April 2022: High churn, reached $6K MRR, and other updates. Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here...
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Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here is a quick update from me in April 2022. This should make a nice thumbnail for this page! 😁 🔻 Suffered from high churn In early April, Black Magic observed
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 13 Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up...
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Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates. I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Both Are True
I always (always!) tell people to write like they’re texting a best friend who loves them And now I can basically do just that cuz Substack lets me write posts from my phone.
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, what're the odds we DON'T creep out...
9 months ago
anderegg.ca
My 2024 Upgradies Picks The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I...
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The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I submitted my recommendations earlier today, and thought it would be fun to share my picks. Best Overall iOS App Bear I once again don’t have a new app for this category, but Bear has...
Old Structures...
Close To Home From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all...
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From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all used to seeing the north end of Broad Street, where the Stock Exchange and Federal Hall are, or views looking up the street to the north. This is the sound end of Broad, as it runs...
Londonist
Time Travel Back To 17th Century London - With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall Commemorating the execution of Charles I.
12 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Valuable Work in Literary Criticism' “Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much...
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“Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much classical or Christian erudition one brings to the task) predict confidently how Johnson is going to respond to this or that specific question; yet of course by the end one...
Louwrentius
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
over a year ago
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Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
devonzuegel.com
On [there being more than] liberty Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your...
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Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your website I came across these words: Individual liberty is the single most important value that society should uphold. I’m more utilitarian and communitarian now. I still believe we...
Common Edge
Letter From Ljubljana, Slovenia: The Human-Centered Urbanism of Jože Plečnik The architect created interventions small and large, all informed by his love of walking the city’s...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
The important thing is to keep going Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who...
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Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who published Spender’s first book, Poems, at Faber & Faber in 1933. Spender wrote the following diary entry six years later, a few days after lunching with Eliot and with the world teetering...
Seán Barry
A Realisation About Fitness No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of...
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No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of me that wants to stop, and there's always another part of me fighting to push through. This is how I deal with that internal battle.
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial? undefined
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What Will Happen In 2024 As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has...
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a year ago
As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because...
Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
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I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
Seth's Blog
She’s here! Some restaurants keep a photo of the local reviewer in the kitchen. The thinking is that if someone...
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Some restaurants keep a photo of the local reviewer in the kitchen. The thinking is that if someone notices she’s in the building, everyone can up their game. And some musicians wait eagerly for A&R person to be in the crowd. If they really kill it tonight, a record deal might...
diamond geezer
River Wogebourne THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead (5 miles) The Wogebourne is a five mile tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction,...
Contemporist...
A New Building In Shanghai Inspired By A Forest Of Trees Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an...
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10 months ago
Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an 'architectural forest' of 32 trees.
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Visit These 15 Beautiful Castles In Kent Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles.
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different...
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In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products instead of just focusing on one thing at a time. This allows them to plant lots of seeds, and although it yields lower quality products in the short term as they're cloning and...
xkcd.com
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TheCollector
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The Modern House
Bright Sparks: five light-filled homes for sale The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our...
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The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our circadian rhythms, inspire us to learn and make our plants happy. But that’s not all: when it comes to our homes, it can transform a space entirely, elevating […]
Maps Mania
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Max Rozen
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The personal website...
Taking credit for success Failure sucks. From its economic realities to its ego-deflating self-esteem sap, failure slows you...
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over a year ago
Failure sucks. From its economic realities to its ego-deflating self-esteem sap, failure slows you down and holds you back. And while it would be nice to live in a world where failure rarely happens, our reality is the opposite; success is the exception. Success is hard to come...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs
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Jonas Hietala
October theme says: Numbers New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay...
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over a year ago
New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay Project theme which this month is numbers. What’s it gonna be? A sudoku game or something more… thrilling? I’ll see what I can do :)
TheCollector
René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism undefined
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Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
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tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
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a year ago
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Broomfield and Denver Weekend I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and...
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I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and before that England, and then I’m heading right back out the door again. This should do it for awhile though; I need some rest. But this trip was a little different because I was there...
Seth's Blog
Goals and expectations [a note to a frustrated friend, just starting out on a long career] There are three reasons that our...
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a year ago
[a note to a frustrated friend, just starting out on a long career] There are three reasons that our goals might not be achieved. In order of palatability, they are: Perhaps the goals are too lofty, too based on chance, unlikely for anyone to achieve, surrounded by barriers that...
The personal website...
Designing with code We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released,...
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over a year ago
We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released, there’s been a wave of competition among traditional design tools. And as the number of tools available to designers grows exponentially, ideas that were once considered fringe are...
TheCollector
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Asterisk
Rebuilding After the Replication Crisis Over a decade has passed since scientists realized many of their studies were failing to replicate....
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Over a decade has passed since scientists realized many of their studies were failing to replicate. How well have their attempts to fix the problem actually worked?
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fundamental Truth of His Periodic Law” My middle son is given to serial enthusiasms, what others call hobbies. He’s a second lieutenant in...
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a year ago
My middle son is given to serial enthusiasms, what others call hobbies. He’s a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, now in training at Quantico, and spends his weekends rock climbing in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. This lends a pleasing symmetry to his life, as one...
The Rational Walk
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Casey Handmer's blog
Salton Sea statistics I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step...
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I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step one was to gather publicly available data about its level, and collate it into a single graph. Here we see that despite the continual formation of Salton Sea advisory committees,...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
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over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing,...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing, power, and retribution. Adults are the same, plus sex and immortality. Today's News:
Arduino Blog
Machine-to-machine communication is easier than ever: Opta now supports OPC UA OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine...
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OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. It was developed by the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation and is defined in detail in the IEC 62541 standard. With the...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
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a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
Rozado’s Visual...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
Seth's Blog
“What’s next?” The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one...
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a year ago
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any environment), the decisions about time and resources–about what to do next–change...
Chris Grossack's...
A Quick Application of Model Categories Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in...
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a year ago
Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in preparation for the HoTTEST summer school. I learned a TON doing this, but I’ve just today seen a really nice (and somewhat concrete) reason to care about the whole endeavor! I’d love...
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M undefined
2 months ago
Old Structures...
Not Quite Changing First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936....
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10 months ago
First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936. Second, a street view photo of 319 Broadway, today. 317 Broadway is at the southwest corner of Thomas Street and Broadway; 319 at the northwest corner. So unless this building moved...
Blog - Guerrilla...
White Elephants in the State of Vermont This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
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over a year ago
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades undefined
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Londonist
Around London In 14 Lions And Lionesses One to paw over.
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
The Modern House
A beloved mid-century home built for a lifetime of colour and creation by two architects
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McMansion Hell
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Anecdotal Evidence
'For My Small Ailments' Empathy, in some quarters, is becoming quite fashionable. Clearly, my doctor has been...
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10 months ago
Empathy, in some quarters, is becoming quite fashionable. Clearly, my doctor has been benefiting from professional development. When he enters the examination room we shake hands, he moves a chair to face me and sits almost knee-to-knee. This is to eliminate any suggestion of...
TheCollector
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Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
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Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
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over a year ago
Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
Rest of World -...
40 companies that are beating the West Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master Etcher of Human Portraits' In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen...
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a year ago
In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen poets and friends were asked to contribute to a symposium published a day earlier in the New York Times Book Review. All but Robert Frost contributed. Amy Lowell wrote: “A realist,...
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
xkcd.com
Qualifications
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Old Vintage...
One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them...
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a month ago
I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your...
Old Structures...
Future Site An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the...
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5 months ago
An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the narrow triangular block that would, a dozen years later, be the site of the construction of the Flatiron Buidling. My first thought was “would you really want a dentist who...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI for Neuroforecasting I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies and concerns. I tend to fall on the side of – AI is a powerful tool, we should continue to develop it and use it responsibly. We don’t need to panic, and highly restrictive laws...
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail j.hoare Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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David Perell
How Philosophers Think Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to...
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over a year ago
Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to understand ideas by making them fight with each other. Their style of analysis is effective because it’s so bloody. One friend calls his style “violent thinking.” He talks about thinking...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
Castles in the Sky
For Richer or Poorer A Love Letter to Weddings
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
Paul Graham: Essays
Weird Languages
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Philippine chipmakers are embracing automation — and leaving low-skilled workers behind Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears,...
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Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears, a sign of growing discontent over automation in the industry.
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the SECOND comic on this theme. A little math suggests I'll have a full collection some time in the 2040s. Today's News:
Lighthouse Blog
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TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads undefined
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diamond geezer
London's highest lettered house What's London's highest lettered house? Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest...
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a year ago
What's London's highest lettered house? Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest above sea level, not like the highest station I blogged about on Thursday. And letters aren't generally higher than other letters, F isn't higher than E, it's more an alphabetical...
xkcd.com
Schwa
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
2 months ago
Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Portugal’s Wellness Havens with TAP Air’s Stopover
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csvbase blog
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
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Willem's Blog
From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
The Works in...
Escape to the country What makes a successful New Town?
5 months ago
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
journal – Winnie Lim
some scenes from chiang mai Sharing some straight out of the camera and phone shots from Chiang Mai. It is known for the coffee...
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Sharing some straight out of the camera and phone shots from Chiang Mai. It is known for the coffee scene, but what I didn’t expect was that it has excellent matcha too,...
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
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a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
Casey Handmer's blog
Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Techies and normals There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
Londonist
In Pictures: London's Tube Station Gardens Which is your fave?
a year ago
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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over a year ago
Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
Val Sopi
A Successful Product Hunt Launch <p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic"...
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<p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic" target="_blank">first PH launch</a> (documented&nbsp;<a href="https://valsopi.com/launching-on-product-hunt">here</a>) was in December of 2022, three months after the <a...
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History undefined
3 months ago
SOCKS
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
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over a year ago
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
Noahpinion
Harris has the right idea on housing It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class.
4 months ago
Home on Erik...
Presentations about Spotify music recommendations A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music recommendations and put together some quite good presentations. First one is Neville Li's presentation about Scala Data Pipelines @ Spotify:
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack undefined
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diamond geezer
I wish it could be every day I wish it could be Christmas Eve every day • Shopping would always be madness. • No more Countdown...
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a year ago
I wish it could be Christmas Eve every day • Shopping would always be madness. • No more Countdown on C4, just endless reruns of The Snowman. • You'd forever be wrapping presents but not opening them. • You'd soon run out of sellotape. • Christmas jumpers would no longer be a...
diamond geezer
Bakerloop An exciting new express bus is on its way if the Mayor is re-elected, which he obviously will be, so...
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An exciting new express bus is on its way if the Mayor is re-elected, which he obviously will be, so an exciting new express bus is on its way. All aboard the Bakerloop! If I’m re-elected - a new Express bus will help Londoners get between Elephant & Castle, Old Kent Road,...
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...
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a year ago
When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...
David Perell
Li Jin: Creating the Creator Economy My guest today is Li Jin, the founder and managing partner at an early-stage venture capital...
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over a year ago
My guest today is Li Jin, the founder and managing partner at an early-stage venture capital firm called Atelier. Before recording this introduction, I didn’t know what an atelier was, so I looked it up and it’s right on brand for Li: it’s defined as a workshop or a studio,...
Londonist
London's New Women's Museum Opens This March Launching on International Women's Day.
10 months ago
Open Culture
The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002) Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost...
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Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost mythical-seeming presence and distinctiveness. But it wasn’t so very long ago that both of them were active — and even active onstage together. In the video above, the King of the High...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Information is the (other) currency of venture capital Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you.  You have what seems like a very good…
Seth's Blog
Normalizing selfishness Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly...
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Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly steal stuff, because speaking up about it won’t help their cause. Sometimes, though, some people seek to change the culture in a way that celebrates taking. “I own this jetski and I...
On the Arts
What is the Demoscene? An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass undefined
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Posts on Made of...
Property Testing Like AFL In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same...
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over a year ago
In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same practice, or at least share a lot of commonality. In this followup post, I want to explore that idea a bit more: I’ll first detour into some of my frustrations and hesitations around...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The End of the World?
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
11 months ago
nanoscale views
Items for discussion, including google's latest quantum computing result As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in Nature a few days ago.  This made a big news splash, including this accompanying press piece from google themselves, this nice article in Quanta, and the always thoughtful blog post by...
Max Rozen
How the React Hooks ESLint plugin saved me hours debugging useEffect useEffect is great for fetching and rendering data, but are you using it correctly? There's an...
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Avoiding technology Robert Caro never learned to type. He pecks out his books two fingers at a time on an electric...
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12 months ago
Robert Caro never learned to type. He pecks out his books two fingers at a time on an electric typewriter. There are two reasons to avoid learning a proven new technology: You know what it can do and how it will change your life and you don’t want it. You don’t know what it can...
Probably...
Probably the Book Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is available, I will post it here. In the meantime, you can read the slides, if you don’t mind spoilers. For people at the conference who don’t know me, this might be a good time to...
The American Scholar
“Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich appeared first on The American...
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8 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Helping The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence...
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3 months ago
The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence in Historic Preservation Award” – from the Preservation League of NYS: here. It’s an interesting award in that the Foundation, which ordinarily funds projects and provides...
Paul Graham: Essays
Writing, Briefly
over a year ago
Map of the Week
The Black Atlantic This map was created by Léopold Lambert to emphasize centrality of the Atlantic Ocean to the slave...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This map was created by Léopold Lambert to emphasize centrality of the Atlantic Ocean to the slave trade. The map was created for an article in the Funambulist and was recently featured as a “Map of the Week” (yes there are others) for the American Geographical...
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
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a year ago
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
The Honest Broker
We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés And I have a hunch we will get them
a year ago
diamond geezer
Bus stops served by the most buses Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of being the 4th. As usual it had nothing to do with something I'd just written, just thousands of people piling onto an old post which just happened to answer a question someone had...
blag
Recurse Center Day 12: Isolation Anomalies Anomalies which define transaction isolation levels
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse? undefined
4 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Marriage: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/sNV1MKQ53oA What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage?...
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a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/sNV1MKQ53oA What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage? It's true, there isn't a huge amount of quotes to find from them specifically about marriage, although there are plenty about love, relationships and caring for people in our...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power...
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power because in the modern world you need an executive branch that can act rapidly. Today's News:
Londonist
Why Is There A Huge Mural Of Rembrandt On Mare Street, Hackney? It's the return of the London Mural Festival.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Consequential Some weeks are consequential. a) Today is the Budget. This budget also feels like it's been...
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2 months ago
Some weeks are consequential. a) Today is the Budget. This budget also feels like it's been coming for ages, the General Election being 17 weeks ago, but it takes time to check the nation's finances, develop a plan and balance strategic gains with individual pain. There has...
Home on Erik...
Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my...
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over a year ago
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.
Open Culture
The Wisdom of Alan Watts in 4 Mind-Expanding Animations Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a sense, Watts prepared U.S. culture for more traditionally Zen teachers like Soto priest Suzuki Roshi, whose lineage continues today, but Watts did not consider himself a Zen Buddhist....
Josh Thompson
Be a little better at personal email The next bunch of posts will be me “clearing out the drawers” of notes I have scattered across my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The next bunch of posts will be me “clearing out the drawers” of notes I have scattered across my phone, computer, and brain. There is no unifying theme to what will be written here. Three recommendations to email better TL;DR Email should usually be as short as possible. More of...
Koos Looijesteijn
Learnings from years of technological progress wasted
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady undefined
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bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date” Edition 1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of...
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a month ago
1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of course, the impact on some companies will be pretty negative. The behaviour it is targeting is so-called “parasite SEO”, where a publisher allows a third party to create content for...
The Forney Flyer
And Here We Go Trying Yet Again... There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
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over a year ago
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Convince Investors
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963) More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children. New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
SatPost by Trung...
The Reading Unlock Entrepreneurs influenced by a single read include Joe Coulombe, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Morris Chang,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Entrepreneurs influenced by a single read include Joe Coulombe, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Morris Chang, Sarah Blakely, Chip Wilson and Phil Knight.
Liz Denys
Dinosaur pie! I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
ribbonfarm
Going Sessile One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel beyond local weekend getaways. Almost no destination has a pain/novelty ratio that makes it worth it. On the one hand, I’ve traveled enough that few places hold the promise of...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
over a year ago
TheCollector
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The Pragmatic...
How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team. For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does...
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8 months ago
For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work? From Evan Morikawa, who leads the Applied engineering team at OpenAI
Stephen Diehl
SBF is Crypto Personified
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect? Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
Construction Physics
Energy Cheat Sheet Building an intuition about energy
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Stat Significant
The Rise and (Overstated) Fall of Radio. A Statistical Analysis Examining radio's rapid adoption and surprising cultural endurance.
3 weeks ago
Mind Mine
why i quit status games stumbling towards trusting myself
4 months ago
Farza's Newsletter
me n Krillin just grabbed starbucks Putting a 20-minute timer on to write the ole newsletter this week. Zip has 4X’d in the last two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Putting a 20-minute timer on to write the ole newsletter this week. Zip has 4X’d in the last two weeks. So, that’s pretty wild. Just working hard to execute now. Create curriculum. Hire teachers. Scheudle classes. Add the necessary features to the product. All that jazz :).
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is now EmergentMind Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a site to share ChatGPT examples and eventually be the home to educational content to help people learn more about GPT. To my surprise, there were a lot of relevant available .com...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
a month ago
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a month ago
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
The Marginalian
How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old "Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a...
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a year ago
"Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being."
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Art and Practice of Reading Aloud to Others' A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells me that since the start of the COVID-19...
a year ago
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a year ago
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells me that since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown he has been reading books aloud to his wife, most recently The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis. His list of more than a dozen titles includes Moby-Dick (“our overall...
Retail Design Blog
Dynamic Frame office by balbek bureau Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich,...
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a month ago
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. At the request...
The Marginalian
What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature...
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a year ago
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston wrote in his lovely century-old meditation on otherness and the web of life. “In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted...
Quantum Frontiers
A peek inside Northrop Grumman’s subatomic endeavors As the weather turns colder and we trade outdoor pools for pumpkin spice and then Christmas carols,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As the weather turns colder and we trade outdoor pools for pumpkin spice and then Christmas carols, perhaps you’re longing for summer’s warmth. For me, it is not just warmth I yearn for: This past summer, I worked as a … Continue reading →
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me: 10% “100%” 36% “pretty confident” 39% “somewhat confident?” 15% “literally no idea” I was...
Math Is Still...
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for each case of this diverse, dynamic disease remains a challenge. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math,...
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President undefined
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Cognitive...
Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
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9 months ago
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
Commoncog
What Rigorous Process Improvement in Education Looks Like What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should do this in your own organisational contexts.
Jonas Hietala
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. ...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Living in hyperbole In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role...
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a year ago
In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role models and experiences were based on reality. Now, when it’s not unusual to spend eight hours a day surrounded by media fueled by greatest hits (worst offender, breaking news,...
Rest of World -...
India shuts down the internet far more than any other country The country had 771 blackouts between 2016 and 2023, and there have been 51 so far this year. We...
3 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
3D Printing and Traditional Wood Joinery Techniques Give Life to the Tsuginote Tea House all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh...
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a year ago
all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh century and is a craftsmanship technique that involves complicated, interlocking wooden joints that form bonds without the use of nails, screws or adhesives. Practical use of these...
Louwrentius
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967 Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
The Rational Walk
Thomas Jefferson’s Advice to His Nephew Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on...
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7 months ago
Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on education, ethics, religion, and many other subjects.
ntietz.com blog
Growing Teams and Baking Bread One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough. There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
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7 months ago
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
Light from Space
Vaporwave Crescent Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters...
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over a year ago
Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters (those with only a few nanometers of bandpass) one can limit the sensor capturing only very specific wavelengths of light, namely the emissions of certain gasses (basically,...
A Beautiful Site
CSS drop caps Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight, or style of the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph. We can easily reproduce this effect on webpages by using the :first-letter pseudo element. Writing the styles...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original WAR IS OVER! postcard. The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
ntietz.com blog
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
xkcd.com
Alphabet Notes
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 1 This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
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a year ago
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short. The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
Londonist
Sing Along To Beyoncé's Greatest Hits - As Played By A Brass Band Old Dirty Brasstards mix things up.
11 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers? In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […] The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Open Culture
A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943 On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic...
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8 months ago
On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger. The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD, absorbed into his system, and, soon after, he experienced an intense...
Maps Mania
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The Elysian
Hint #1 I'm publishing a new print collection in three weeks.
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The American Scholar
Such as It Is The post Such as It Is appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Too much money in digital health? | Out-Of-Pocket Here's what some of you had to say
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How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
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CONTEMPORIST
This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset,...
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Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset, Ontario, that hovers above the natural sloped terrain close to the water’s edge of Kawagama Lake. The building, which sits lightly on the rugged site, invites expansive sky and...
Maps Mania
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Rest of World -...
23 Rest of World stories that defined 2023 This year, Rest of World published around 500 articles from more than 50 countries. Here are our...
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mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Five - Terminating Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
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over a year ago
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers (this section) If you’ve followed this guide, you’ve hired writers on a...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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over a year ago
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Dan Quach Blog
Rest in Peace Dad Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer...
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Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with a life expectancy of 1-2 years. In mid December my dad was hospitalized and one of the doctors suggested all family members should come urgently.  When I arrived, the days...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
charity.wtf
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
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a month ago
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
Ben Borgers
Reading with RSS
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart and share!
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Luke Mitchell's personal website interroban.gg is a beautifully-designed personal website.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Pointless push-button crossings There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this one's useless. This one's useless too. And what's interesting is that people generally don't realise this and press the buttons anyway. Parents heading to the shops press the...